User talk:Gluzinski

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Hello, Gluzinski, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! GPL93 (talk) 16:48, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * courtesy ping. —usernamekiran (talk) 21:13, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Asking for help
Hello, GPL93, and thank you so much for your note. I am also a process truster...though it has not been easy. We'll see what happens tonight in Game one against Boston. I hope my disclosure makes clear that I don't see this is as a conflict at all. I have a background as a journalist and writing teacher and I know how to write a neutral profile. I have nothing to gain except to make sure that there is some biographical information online about a conductor who made many recordings (including with Jean Pierre Rampal). In fact, the first several paragraphs for this was not written by me but a music agent who contacted me asking about Arthur Goldschmidt. Yes, he was a relative though we never met, but I am confident I can be neutral. Thank you and Go Sixers. Would you suggest I have this other writer create this page? - Gluzinski (Perhaps you have figured out where my UN came from) Gluzinski (talk) 20:36, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * There are a few things you should be aware of. The help me template raises a flag (I usually call it a 'batsignal' that you need help) and is attended to by a fairly broad group of editors. It is not what you should use when addressing a specific user. For that, you would want to use something like the template or one of its friends, such as reply.
 * And, yes, Wikipedia will deem you to have a conflict of interest with respect to writing about your relative. Your explanation on your user page is already sufficient to explain the connection and you need not do anything more.
 * Next, you say your draft contains material written by someone else. This is a problem and you, with a background as a journalist, should be acutely aware of the problems of plagiarism or at least unattributed quotation. I'm going to recommend that the page be deleted for now until things can be cleared up.
 * The other difficulty with your draft is that is not apparent that it is based on published references. Until you have the references in hand that you plan to rely on, you should not begin to write anything. Trying to find references later to support what you've already written seldom works out well. And, by the way, references do not necessarily have to be online. You can cite old newspapers, books and magazines that are not online as long as there's some likelihood that an interested reader could find those items with the help of a good library.
 * Writing for Wikipedia should be considered a specialized variety of journalism with a lot of house rules. Become familiar with those rules, please. A good place to start is WP:your first article.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 22:28, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello, friends. I apologize. Perhaps we should just delete this page, I'll step back, and perhaps someone else will create an Arthur Goldschmidt page. Your responses have been very helpful. Thank you. Gluzinski (talk) 01:17, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * You can request the page be deleted by putting the code  on the page - an admin will be along shortly to do the necessary verification that it's you who added the page and will then delete it.  — jmcgnh (talk)  (contribs) 01:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)